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Author Topic: Where the HECK is my W2 ?? Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-26-2003 07:27 PM                        O.K. Here is the problem and a question... Problem ...I have not recieved my W2 yet. I have contacted the Home office and have also asked the Manager to also contact them to request them to send me another W2. As of now, I have not recieved the W2 from them. Question ....Should I report them to the IRS? Some people I ask have said it would be really bad on my part if I did report them.. others say...REPORT THEM! What the HECK is your Opinion??  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-26-2003 07:30 PM                     The question is: Do you want to pay the Late filing penalty fee? If you can't get a straight answer then sickem boy. My .002 cnets worth. P.S. Checked with my sources and they said that Joe R. has your W2.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-26-2003 07:31 PM                       I think the law says they have to be postmarked by 1/31. If you haven't received it yet, it's possible it was lost - and the company may have fulfilled its obligation. Regardless, you should at least be able to request a replacement.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-26-2003 07:33 PM                        Check the instructions with the 1040 form. I'm pretty sure that you don't actually need a W2 form if you have a pay stub from around 12/31 which shows "year to date" pay.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-26-2003 07:34 PM                        Aren't W-2's required by law to be sent out by Jan 31st? I would call the home office, ask for the payroll supervisor (be sure to get the name). Explain the situation. Ask them to please promptly send you a replacement. Be sure to ask them WHEN it will go in the mail. The day after that date, call that person again and say in a friendly way you're just checking to make sure the W-2 has gone out so you will know to be looking for it. Basically you just need to get this bubbled up to the top of that person's to-do list.  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-26-2003 07:36 PM                     They should be able to generate you a copy of the W2 if they have "fulfilled thier obligation" and you can note that it is a copy on the tax form 1040(a), whatever.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-26-2003 07:44 PM                     I would ask to company and your manager again for it. Because I hate getting a letter, months later from the IRS saying the company reported my income, and I owe more money. When I work on the extra board, one year I had 25 of those damn things. Plus 1099's from studio work.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-26-2003 07:46 PM                    Official IRS Info on lost or missing W-2's. If you can't get it straightened out in time you can simply file a Form 4852 Substitute for a Missing Form W-2 and indicate the source of the data was your last paystub of 2002.  |  IP: Logged Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-26-2003 08:07 PM                        More Background info... Most (if not all) of my mail goes to a Post Office Box, the only "mail" that goes to my house is the supermarket ads and basicaly junk mail stuff. The address on my paychecks and I would assume, on my W2, would be my home address. I asked the Mailman if he remembers seeing a W2 come to the house, he said he doesn't remember one. I called the Home office and talked to the Payroll lady who said that if it comes back to the office, she would send it out to me again. The following week I called again and she said that they have a new Payroll system and that it could be "weeks" before they could generate a "new" W2. I called her again yesterday, but she did not return my call. Thanks for the reply's so far..Please keep them coming.. Paul Goulet  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 02-27-2003 05:28 PM                     W.....2.....What?  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-27-2003 05:40 PM                        Each year, employers must provide a report of employee earnings to both the IRS, and the employee, via IRS Form W-2. The form also includes how much was withheld for federal & state income taxes, Social Security, etc. Individuals need the W-2 form to complete their annual tax return. (IRS = Internal Revenue Service, the federal organization that collects our wonderful income taxes for the gvt.)  |  IP: Logged Rick Stowell Film Handler Posts: 13 From: MN Registered: Feb 2003 posted 02-27-2003 06:04 PM                     As a former bean counter, I strongly recommend calling the home office and talking to the payroll people. They keep copies and can fax one to you in a minute. Reporting them won't get you your W-2 any quicker, and will only piss people off and get somebody in trouble. Keep your goal in mind: to get my W-2. With my staff, someone loses their W-2 every year, so I make a copy and get it to them. Good luck!  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-27-2003 09:21 PM                       quote: generate you a copy of the W2 if they have "fulfilled thier obligation" Why sure, if they've sent it out by the 31st, that's all they're required to do. If you don't receive it for whatever reason, it's not the employers fault. However, if they didn't send it to begin with, they're in deep.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-28-2003 12:29 AM                    Technically the employer sends the W2's and a summarizing form called a W3 to the Social Security Administration. But of course this data is shared with the IRS as the two agencies like to gossip. Most businesses (and their IT services) send out a substitute W2 of their own design which is acceptable as long as it provides the necessary info. This is allowed as they are sending the info the SSA via electronic means. If wish to turn in paper W2's (and W3) as I do you have to use the actual IRS form (not one you download and print) because the top copy...the one that goes to SSA...is printed in red ink which is ignored by their OCR scanners. This (and Forms 1099/1096) constitute my annual use of an actual typewriter.  |  IP: Logged Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-28-2003 11:05 PM                        GOOD NEWS! When I went to work tonight, The manager had my W2 for me. It was sent from the Home Office on Thursday to the theatre, which just baffles me because I asked that it be sent to my house. Everything that is sent to me from the home office is either misplaced or opened before I get it..But that is another rant for another day..  |  IP: Logged

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